I had a nurse scare the bejeezus out of me a couple of years ago when my daughter was admitted to the hospital for an extremely low blood count and jaundice. She was talking to another nurse while we were in the room and remarked that an oncologist would probably have to be called. Good lord, talk about bad news delivered baldly. Someone should have sat us down and said "she appears to be anemic, and these days all hematologists are also oncologists, because that is a lot of what they do, but a lot of blood disorders have nothing to do with cancer."

Good luck, Linn, and I say mention something to about that mistake to the nurse's supervisor.

SRS